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- Poilu (/ˈpwɑːluː/; French: [pwaly]) is an informal term for a late 18th century–early 20th century French infantryman, meaning, literally, the hairy one...
- (10 September 2001). "Le dernier poilu s'est éteint". La Dernière Heure. Retrieved 2 May 2016. "Adieu au dernier poilu belge". La Dernière Heure. 19 September...
- The Journées du Poilu Sportif (English: Hairy Sportsman Days) was a sports events held across France organized by the French sports w****ly magazine Sporting...
- officially recognized veteran of the First World War from France and the last poilu of its trenches to die. Born in Italy, he travelled on his own to France...
- French Poilus posing with their war-torn flag in 1917, during World War I...
- First World War. The term became wrapped up in the public conception of the poilu ("hairy one", the typical French foot soldier) and his beloved pinard, joined...
- m****cript, and in 1978, sixty years after the war, it was published as Poilu: the World War I notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, barrelmaker, 1914–1918...
- Flivver in 1917, sta**** on in France after militarization, and composed From "Poilu" to "Yank" in 1918. Robert Imbrie published Behind the Wheel of a War Ambulance...
- the original on 31 August 2024. Retrieved 18 November 2024. "Journées du Poilu Sportif 1916". RSSSF. 14 October 2021. Archived from the original on 2 May...
- Mont des Poilus is a 3,161-metre (10,371-foot) mountain summit located in Yoho National Park, in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada. Its...